Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide

This book is a critique of Abraham Kuyper’s cultural theory of a common grace of God and of the grandiose mission of this grace, and of those who confess the theory and evidently intend to promote it so that it accomplishes the end Kuyper claimed. The book exposes Kuyper’s biblical basis for his theory and its practical mission.

The first and main part of the book is a much-expanded version of the public lecture given in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2014 under the auspices of the evangelism society of Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Wyoming, Michigan. The second part of the book consists of questions raised by the audience at the conclusion of the lecture and of the answers by the speaker at the lecture.

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Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide

This book is a critique of Abraham Kuyper’s cultural theory of a common grace of God and of the grandiose mission of this grace, and of those who confess the theory and evidently intend to promote it so that it accomplishes the end Kuyper claimed. The book exposes Kuyper’s biblical basis for his theory and its practical mission.

The first and main part of the book is a much-expanded version of the public lecture given in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2014 under the auspices of the evangelism society of Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Wyoming, Michigan. The second part of the book consists of questions raised by the audience at the conclusion of the lecture and of the answers by the speaker at the lecture.

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Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide

Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide

by David J Engelsma
Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide

Christianizing the World: Reformed Calling or Ecclesiastical Suicide

by David J Engelsma

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Overview

This book is a critique of Abraham Kuyper’s cultural theory of a common grace of God and of the grandiose mission of this grace, and of those who confess the theory and evidently intend to promote it so that it accomplishes the end Kuyper claimed. The book exposes Kuyper’s biblical basis for his theory and its practical mission.

The first and main part of the book is a much-expanded version of the public lecture given in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2014 under the auspices of the evangelism society of Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Wyoming, Michigan. The second part of the book consists of questions raised by the audience at the conclusion of the lecture and of the answers by the speaker at the lecture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781944555023
Publisher: Reformed Free Publishing Association
Publication date: 11/03/2016
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction to Part 1

Deep Background

Nature of the Book

1 The Kuyperian Common Grace Project

Christianizing the Culture

Remains of the Image of God

2 The Power of Christianizing the World

Common, Cultural Grace

The Internal Component: “Point of Contact”

Worldview

Breaching the Antithesis

Two (Antagonistic) Worldviews

3 Creedal and Biblical Basis of the Common Grace Worldview

Canons 3–4.4

“Neo-Calvinism”

Contemporary Creeds

The Covenant with Noah

4 Reformed Critique of Kuyper’s Common Grace Worldview: The Confessions

The Reformed Confessions

Grace and Providence

5 Reformed Critique of Kuyper’s Common Grace Worldview: Scripture (1)

Calvin on the Noahic Covenant

Doctrinal Modernism

More on the Noahic Covenant

The Cosmic Character of the Covenant with Noah

6 Reformed Critique of Kuyper’s Common Grace Worldview: Scripture (2)

Colossians 1:13–20

The Worldview of the “Firstborn of Every Creature”

A Christless Christianizing

7 The Cultural Calling of the Christian

Anabaptist?

The Reformed Worldview

Christianizing by Christ Alone

Last Warning

Introduction to Part 2

8 Answers to Questions

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